The Girl in the FallAway Dress Stories Grace Paley Prize edition by Michelle Richmond Literature Fiction eBooks
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A series of locations both familiar and exotic make up the seventeen linked stories in this award-winning debut collection by the New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog. Whether leaving, returning, or staying put, the women who narrate these stories are bound to Alabama by history and habit, their voices informed by the landscape and lore of the deep South.
In "Down the Shore Everything's All Right," twenty-eight-year-old Grace abandons wide Southern beaches for New York sidewalks, only to discover that the Gulf Coast still has a hold on her. In "Intermittent Waves of Unusual Size and Force," a wayward father is called home from California by a massive hurricane that threatens the lives of his family. In "The World's Greatest Pants," three younger sisters watch in awe as Darlene, the eldest and bravest, defies her parents and heads for Texas in a battered El Camino.
An undercurrent of eroticism runs through the collection. "Propaganda" finds the youngest sister alone in an old house in Knoxville, where she forms a symbiotic relationship with a mysterious upstairs neighbor during her husband's lengthy absence. In "Fifth Grade A Criminal History," adolescence and sexuality merge with explosive consequences.
The divine and the absurd are uneasy but frequent bedfellows in these stories. "O-lama-lama" portrays a religious free-for-all at a beachside church in Fairhope, Alabama, while "Slacabamorinico" celebrates the holy commotion of Mardi Gras at a Mobile cemetery. In "The Last Bad Thing," a love-struck young woman in the Bible Belt is haunted by visions of Ramadan.
A valuable resource for students of short fiction, this collection will also delight fans of Richmond's later books The Year of Fog, No One You Know, Dream of the Blue Room, and the award-winning story collection HUM.
The Girl in the FallAway Dress Stories Grace Paley Prize edition by Michelle Richmond Literature Fiction eBooks
Another kudo for Richmond! After "A Year of Fog" I didn't think she could continue to be outstanding once again,,,, but she is. I found I had to pay attention to this book and many times, had to go back and review. I tend to be lazy reader once in awhile. Loved the complexity and simplicity within the same story. I hope she continues to write until I'm very old.Product details
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The Girl in the FallAway Dress Stories Grace Paley Prize edition by Michelle Richmond Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This collection is a wonderful antidote to the mundane and thoroughly unimaginative work that plagues modern fiction. Ms. Richmond rises above the rest with her unique blend of characterization and skillful narrative, making her the first new writer worth your time since Alice Walker came upon the scene. Thanks to the publishers for getting this work to us.
I thought this would be just another lame, overly sensitive chick book that my wife brought home. The cover shot is a nice way to get a semi-literate husband to pick it up and thumb through it, and that is exactly what I had intended to do. However, I found myself reading the whole damn thing start to finish. The soulfulness of the characters, the crisp descriptions and Richmond's ability to tug at one's emotions left me wanting more. Who the hell is this Ivan guy?
I loved Michelle's Richmond's debut collection. The voices are authentic, the conflicts palpable, and the settings vivid. Some are shorter, some are longer, but they NEVER bog down, and they leave you wanting more. As a writer who's very interested in spiritual themes, I appreciate Michelle's deft and intelligent--yet always compassionate--rendering of them. This debut was a harbinger of the novels to come and the trademark skill and empathy that Michelle would bring to each. I highly recommend this book... and Michelle Richmond's novels.
Beside the cute tital, nothing good to say.
I am usually not a reader of short stories as I don't feel there is adequate time to develop the story and characters. However, having loved all of Michelle Richmond's books, I decided to try this collection of her short stories. Focused mainly on a family of 4 sisters and not told in chronological order, these stories are heartfelt, poignant, and unique. Impressive and a real treat to read!
Review Michelle Richmond, lives in California...(not 'too' far from me).Al I knew she was from Alabama,
but until now...all the other novels I've read by her have taken place in
Northern California ( written so well...a reader would think she was a Bay Area native)....
so, it was a treat to read the collection of these short stories...all linked to
Alabama --( coming or going).
Michelle gives us a 'Southern - historical flavor of the what's driving the community ...
in particular, one extended family from the 'natives' from Alabama...
and in particular....'woman'.
We witness woman breaking free...( dancing naked in San Francisco)...
All woman who leave the south - who come to San Francisco...dance naked in public at least once in their lives....didn't you know it's an initiation to the city? Ha! )
Many themes that run through these stories are about finding freedom, strength,
dependable souls to trust...and one's own voice.
In one of the stories Grace is talking with her boyfriend Ivan. She has had it with his
stories, his lies, and is trying to tell him she wants to break up. We can see Grace feels
pretty down on 'all men ' at the moment, too. From 'her' shoes we almost can't blame
her. I got the impression the poor girl has never experienced a healthy male/female
relationship...
Then,...to top things off, Howard Stern comes on the radio.
"He's interviewing a leading child psychologists, quizzing her on the size of her breasts. He wants to know if her breasts get in the way of her social work. She wants to know if his stupidity gets in the way of his career. She postulates that Howard Stern was breast-fed until the age of 10 or so and thus his fascination with the
mammary glad. She suggests that he wants to sleep with his mother".
"Whoa-ho!, he says. "Easy Baby. I'll tell you who I want to sleep with. I want to sleep with your mother!"
"Howard's sidekick, Robin, tells him to behave."
Ivan and Grace continue on their car drive....( in silence)
"A couple of minutes later we exit the turnpike, then drive for a long time toward
the shore. It begins to rain. The windshield wipers of our plastic Rent-A-Car keep sticking, and every couple of minutes I have to lean out the window and lift the wipers from the glass to get them moving again."
"Our route takes us through broken-down towns that all look pretty much the same
old factories with soot-scarred windows, bent cars parked permanently in driveways, filthy little grocery stores with big white banners in the windows, advertising pork roast and pampers. Ivan watches the slick road while I watch the odometer. It clicks off
the miles with a slowness that reminds me of Alabama, Sunday drives with my
parents and sisters through green empty places that inevitably ended at some
abandoned length of railroad, crossing signals long defunct."
While Michelle Richmond explored the growth of several family members..be it religion, sexuality, parenting, education, birth, guilt, fears, grief, laughter, love, ...
she has our emotions in the palm of her hands...and
from rain - to sunshine- to low white hills -to
chilly nights..and muddy tracks from tires on a car in untouched snow, Michelle's
writing is quite beautiful.
I have read Michelle Richmond's books, all of which I loved! So, I was dying to read this one.
I believe it was her first book - a compilaiton of short stories that were somehow suppose to come together - that's what I read somewhere.
I was sort of disappointed in that the book seemed like a lot of stories that somehow weren't complete and really didn't connect - other than I think they were about a family of girls and their individual stories.
It was a little hard for me to follow because it jumped from one girl to the other.
I didn't NOT like it, but, it didn't really move me as all her other books have.
I like the way she has "matured" in her story writing and am looking forward to her next novel, which I hope is coming soon.
Another kudo for Richmond! After "A Year of Fog" I didn't think she could continue to be outstanding once again,,,, but she is. I found I had to pay attention to this book and many times, had to go back and review. I tend to be lazy reader once in awhile. Loved the complexity and simplicity within the same story. I hope she continues to write until I'm very old.
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